Machine for nailing heel-lifts



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MACHINE POR NAILING HEEL LIFTS.

Patented May 1 t UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

QUINCY A. TOWNES, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR NAILING HEEL-LIFTS.'

SPECIFICATION forming part' of .Letters Iatent No. 276,648, dated May 1, 1883.

Application led February 13, 1863. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, QUINGY ADAMS ToWNEs, ot' Lynn, in the county of Essex, of the Oommonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machinery for Pressing and Naling Shoe'or Boot Heels; and.

I do hereby declare the same to bc described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a front elevation, and Fig. 3 a vertical median and transverse section, of a machineembodying my invention, the nature of which is detined in the claim hereinafter presented. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a pack of heel-lifts as arranged for being pressed and nailed together, preparatory to which they are to have a snitable cement applied to their surfaces which are to be in contact.

In the drawings, A denotes the machineframe, provided on its top with a recess, B, to receive a pack of heelflit'ts to be pressed and nailed. Extending downrfrom the said recess is a passage or tube, C, having within it a plunger or nail-driver, D, which at its lower end is pivoted to the shorter arm of a lever, E. A rod, F, provided at `its upper end with a head, c, goes down through the plate b of the frame, and at its lower end is pivoted to the longer arm of the lever E. The said lever is fnlcrumed to an upright, c, to which and to t I, to which and the said arm a spiral spring, e,

is fixed, and is arranged as represented. A rod,

K, provided at top with a head,f, and adapted pedal upward after a depression of the pedalby the foot of an attendant may have taken place.

p In using the machine a person is rst to drop a nail head foremost into the tube C, at its upper end, the nail going entirely below the heel-lift-receiving recess, after which the pack of heel-lifts, having cement in a. soft or moist state between the several lifts, is to be placed in the heel-lift-receiving recess, so as to be directly over the tube U and the ejector G. Next, the presser Lis to be turned around so as to corne immediately over the pack, and b'y moving the pedal downward is to be depressed upon the said pack, so as to rmly condense it or force itslifts into close contact. While the presser is so in action on the pack the attendant, is with his right hand on the knob or head a to press the rod F downward, and thereby cause the nail-driver D to force the nail upward through the several lifts. This havin-g been accomplished, the attendant is to remove his hand from lthe head a and his foot from the pedal, in order to allow the spring O to elevate the presser of the pack, and the spring d to operate to draw the nail-driver downward in the tube C. Next, the attendant is to turn the presser around from over the pack, andA should force downward the rod K, so as to cause the ejector Gr to be pressed upward against the pack and force it out of the heel-liftreceiving recess or ejector, and the presser arranged in or applied to the frame, and having to the said plunger, ejector, and presser, mechanisms, essentially as specified, for operating them, as explained.

QUINGY ADAMS TOWNES. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

